Friday, October 24, 2008

Life of the Ant

-They say that Japan has enjoyed the longest economic expansioncycle until recently, although we feel nothing real for the good economy.-If you see the economy just by figures, it may be true.Businesses in Japan suffered from the bursting of the bubbleeconomy in the '90s. They went crazy to increase their owncapital. Under such circumstances they have been onlyinterested in how to decrease their payroll.Our wages has never rose and we have been afraid of layoffs.Who spend money in such a situation?-The elders and the pensioners have been also under very severe situation.The Japanese deposit interest rate has been near zerofor many years. They should cut their savingsfor living expenses year by year. In some terrible cases they were cheated by nasty tradersand lost all of their savings. It's more than just a pity.-Thus the money which otherwise had been gotten by the ordinaryJapanese has turned to companies, financial firms and so on.They have directly invested in overseas market or lent moneyto investment funds, which have brought them a massive return.-The money spilling out of our hands has been used for parties of the grasshopper after all. Damn it!

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I have a friend, Cai Guohua, who was born and brought up in Shanghai and now lives in Tokyo.
He is an outstanding artist who can draw the essence of the object.He always carries a sketchbook with him and makes rapid but vivid sketches of people whom he comes across every here and there, such as on a commuter train, at a coffee shop, in a park and so on.Those who he draws are very ordinary Japanese people, young and old, with thousands of murmurings in mind.In this site I will try to pick up some of those murmurings.
You may see his sketches as well as their actual feelings and thoughts in life.